Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The magic's in the hole!

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.